A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work ""And I who was walking" "with the earth at my waist, " "saw two snowy eagles" "and a naked girl." "The one was the other" "and the girl was neither."" --from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garcia Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says in his illuminating Introduction--"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."
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"[The translations are] both ingenious and accurate, setting a very high standard for translation of verse from Spanish." --Michael Wood, "The New York Review of Books"